Editing Kurds (section)

===Transcaucasus===
{{See also|Kurdish-Armenian relations|Kurds in Azerbaijan}}
[[File:Ilham Aliyev and Mehriban Aliyeva attended opening of Kharibulbul Festival in Shusha 15.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Tunar Rahmanoghly singing Kurdish song "Rinda Min". [[Khari Bulbul Music Festival]]]]

Between the 1930s and 1980s, [[Armenia]] was a part of the [[Soviet Union]], within which Kurds, like other ethnic groups, had the status of a protected minority. Armenian Kurds were permitted their own state-sponsored newspaper, radio broadcasts and cultural events. During the conflict in [[Nagorno-Karabakh]], many non-Yazidi Kurds were forced to leave their homes since both the Azeri and non-Yazidi Kurds were Muslim.

In 1920, two Kurdish-inhabited areas of Jewanshir (capital [[Kalbajar]]) and eastern Zangazur (capital [[Lachin]]) were combined to form the [[Kurdistan Okrug]] (or "Red Kurdistan"). The period of existence of the Kurdish administrative unit was brief and did not last beyond 1929. Kurds subsequently faced many repressive measures, including deportations, imposed by the [[USSR|Soviet]] government. As a result of the [[Nagorno-Karabakh conflict]], many Kurdish areas have been destroyed and more than 150,000 Kurds have been deported since 1988 by separatist [[Armenia]]n forces.<ref name="meho">[http://www.slis.indiana.edu/faculty/meho/meho-bibliography-2001.pdf Kurds and Kurdistan: A General Background], p.22</ref>